Friday, January 20, 2017

Principal Operating Parts of the Remington Noiseless Portable typewriter

Have had a Remington Noiseless Portable typewriter for a while now. Given the age of such machines when acquired second-hand, not surprising this came without its user manual. Recently just happened to spot the right instruction leaflet on a well-known global auction site. Surprisingly (or not) nobody else spotted or wanted it, so here is the machine with an original user manual.


This is a single sheet. Opening up the leaflet a cut-corner and arrow on the page underneath make it clear to the reader that there's another page to open. (That explains the arrow on my leaflet for the Victor T; that also has the arrow, but lacked the cut-corner.)


Side-by-side all the principal operating parts of the typewriter are identified and given a brief explanation in the list below.


On the back of the leaflet of course some advertising for Remtico ribbons and special Noiseless carbon paper. Nicely put are paragraphs on things to do and on things not to do.


The leaflet when folded is 8" x 5½", from a single 16" by 11" sheet printed on both sides. Will be making a reproduction copy for keeping with the typewriter. Already below scans of both sides in fairly decent resolution.

  

Now what would be the chances of some Remtico Noiseless carbon paper turning up online...

:-)

5 comments:

  1. That is a great resource! Thanks for posting the extra photos of the instructions.

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  2. Cool! Hope you won't mind if I add this to my collection on The Classic Typewriter Page.

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    1. Not at all :-)
      Please do host copies - never know when sites go dark and all that ...

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